Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 64 72
Rank change year-on-year -32 +8 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,788 1,956 3,410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 4.14% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 4.54% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,323 988 2,565
10th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £42,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71,140 43,093 86,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 91.19% 82.11%
Number of salaries quoted 49,140 23,729 61,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -35 1,602 £75,000 +3.45% 631
UK excluding London -69 904 £65,000 -7.14% 390
Work from Home -25 808 £67,500 -3.57% 362
London -10 738 £85,000 +3.03% 317
North of England -41 344 £69,310 -3.73% 114
South East -16 246 £65,000 -7.14% 123
North West -52 190 £75,000 +7.14% 66
South West -71 95 £52,500 -23.39% 58
Midlands -63 91 £65,000 -3.70% 49
North East +14 77 £65,000 +18.18% 19
Yorkshire -30 77 £63,750 -12.07% 30
West Midlands -44 64 £77,500 +10.71% 29
East of England -14 48 £60,100 -3.84% 13
Wales -20 37 £70,000 +34.62% 10
Scotland -66 28 £60,000 -23.87% 17
East Midlands -50 26 £64,500 +7.50% 20
Northern Ireland -30 17 £62,500 +25.00% 10
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (1.73%) Confluence
2 25 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.89%) Apache
3 16 (0.89%) CMS
4 15 (0.84%) IIS
5 10 (0.56%) JBoss
6 9 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.39%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.34%) Camunda
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.28%) Drupal
9 5 (0.28%) nginx
10 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.17%) Kentico
11 3 (0.17%) Sitefinity
11 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.34%) PlantUML
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 955 (53.41%) AWS
2 785 (43.90%) Azure
3 324 (18.12%) GCP
4 265 (14.82%) Serverless
5 201 (11.24%) GitHub
6 180 (10.07%) SaaS
7 155 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
8 127 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
10 105 (5.87%) Amazon S3
11 94 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 83 (4.64%) Azure Service Bus
13 81 (4.53%) GitHub Copilot
14 75 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (3.58%) Azure AKS
17 58 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
18 57 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
19 51 (2.85%) PaaS
20 46 (2.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.58%) Broadband
2 24 (1.34%) Network Security
3 13 (0.73%) DMARC
4 12 (0.67%) MQTT
5 11 (0.62%) DNS
6 9 (0.50%) Internet
7 8 (0.45%) AMQP
7 8 (0.45%) Firewall
7 8 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.45%) VPN
8 7 (0.39%) DHCP
9 6 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.34%) HTTP
9 6 (0.34%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.28%) LTE
10 5 (0.28%) RFID
11 3 (0.17%) Modbus
12 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.11%) SNMP
12 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (15.60%) MongoDB
2 205 (11.47%) PostgreSQL
3 199 (11.13%) NoSQL
4 146 (8.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 146 (8.17%) Elasticsearch
5 115 (6.43%) MySQL
6 90 (5.03%) SQL Server
7 84 (4.70%) Relational Database
8 55 (3.08%) Redis
9 51 (2.85%) DynamoDB
10 48 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
11 30 (1.68%) Big Data
12 23 (1.29%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.29%) RDBMS
13 12 (0.67%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.62%) Db2
14 11 (0.62%) DTS
15 9 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
16 8 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 205 (11.47%) Git
2 166 (9.28%) GitLab
3 137 (7.66%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.24%) TeamCity
5 54 (3.02%) JIRA
6 48 (2.68%) JUnit
7 41 (2.29%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.73%) Claude Code
8 31 (1.73%) Mockito
9 30 (1.68%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.57%) CircleCI
11 27 (1.51%) Maven
12 19 (1.06%) Selenium
13 17 (0.95%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.84%) JMeter
14 15 (0.84%) Vite
15 13 (0.73%) Postman
16 12 (0.67%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 10 (0.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 454 (25.39%) Finance
2 313 (17.51%) Social Skills
3 172 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 158 (8.84%) Banking
5 106 (5.93%) Retail
6 102 (5.70%) Law
7 97 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
7 97 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 54 (3.02%) Financial Institution
9 49 (2.74%) Back Office
10 31 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.57%) Legal
12 26 (1.45%) Marketing
13 25 (1.40%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 17 (0.95%) Advertising
16 16 (0.89%) Billing
16 16 (0.89%) Games
17 12 (0.67%) Front Office
17 12 (0.67%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 643 (35.96%) Developer
2 418 (23.38%) Senior
3 356 (19.91%) Software Engineer
4 264 (14.77%) Lead
5 248 (13.87%) Architect
6 182 (10.18%) .NET Developer
7 143 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 138 (7.72%) Java Developer
9 126 (7.05%) Senior Developer
10 125 (6.99%) Java Engineer
11 118 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 101 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
13 93 (5.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 83 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
15 75 (4.19%) Software Developer
16 68 (3.80%) Lead Developer
17 62 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (2.85%) Lead Software Engineer
18 51 (2.85%) Senior Java Engineer
19 50 (2.80%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (26.06%) .NET
2 404 (22.60%) React
3 397 (22.20%) Node.js
4 290 (16.22%) Spring
5 269 (15.04%) RESTful
5 269 (15.04%) Spring Boot
6 237 (13.26%) REST
7 209 (11.69%) Kafka
8 205 (11.47%) ASP.NET
9 196 (10.96%) .NET Core
10 191 (10.68%) AngularJS
11 181 (10.12%) Vue
12 168 (9.40%) ASP.NET Core
13 99 (5.54%) ASP.NET Web API
14 93 (5.20%) .NET Framework
15 91 (5.09%) Blazor
16 88 (4.92%) HTML
17 82 (4.59%) CSS
17 82 (4.59%) gRPC
18 69 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 542 (30.31%) Cloud Native
2 302 (16.89%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (6.94%) Product Ownership
4 89 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
5 78 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.57%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.52%) Over-the-Top Content
9 40 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 35 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 34 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 29 (1.62%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.51%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
14 26 (1.45%) e-Learning
15 25 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
16 23 (1.29%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.17%) Mobile App
18 19 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 108 (6.04%) Linux
2 46 (2.57%) Windows
3 20 (1.12%) Unix
4 12 (0.67%) CentOS
4 12 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.34%) Debian
5 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.17%) AIX
6 3 (0.17%) Android
6 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (50.73%) CI/CD
2 816 (45.64%) Agile
3 654 (36.58%) Software Engineering
4 647 (36.19%) DevOps
5 511 (28.58%) Full-Stack Development
6 420 (23.49%) Containerisation
7 415 (23.21%) Mentoring
8 375 (20.97%) Test Automation
9 373 (20.86%) Event-Driven
10 356 (19.91%) AI
11 344 (19.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 337 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 307 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
14 252 (14.09%) Scrum
15 232 (12.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 226 (12.64%) Technical Leadership
17 221 (12.36%) TDD
18 203 (11.35%) Clean Code
19 202 (11.30%) Coaching
20 189 (10.57%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 585 (32.72%) Java
2 457 (25.56%) C#
3 451 (25.22%) SQL
4 439 (24.55%) Python
5 410 (22.93%) JavaScript
6 334 (18.68%) TypeScript
7 119 (6.66%) Go
8 49 (2.74%) Scala
9 43 (2.40%) C++
10 42 (2.35%) Bash
10 42 (2.35%) PHP
11 41 (2.29%) Ruby
12 25 (1.40%) PowerShell
13 24 (1.34%) Bicep
13 24 (1.34%) C
13 24 (1.34%) Rust
14 16 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.73%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.62%) Groovy
16 11 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 226 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 171 (9.56%) Degree
3 152 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.36%) AWS Certification
6 43 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 34 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (1.34%) CISSP
9 19 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 12 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.50%) CISM
12 9 (0.50%) PhD
13 7 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.34%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.28%) GIAC
15 5 (0.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.89%) QA
2 62 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 40 (2.24%) GDPR
4 39 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.29%) NIST
5 23 (1.29%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.29%) SOC 2
5 23 (1.29%) WCAG
6 16 (0.89%) NCSC
7 15 (0.84%) GRC
8 10 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.22%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.22%) SEPA
13 3 (0.17%) IFRS
13 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 517 (28.91%) Docker
2 22 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.22%) Firmware
3 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 554 (30.98%) Kubernetes
2 337 (18.85%) Terraform
3 101 (5.65%) Ansible
4 95 (5.31%) Grafana
5 54 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.29%) Argo
7 20 (1.12%) Kibana
8 17 (0.95%) Puppet
9 13 (0.73%) Cilium
10 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.45%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.22%) Packer
12 4 (0.22%) Podman
13 3 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.17%) Rancher
14 2 (0.11%) Istio
14 2 (0.11%) MIIS
14 2 (0.11%) Nagios
14 2 (0.11%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.056%) logstash
Vendors
1 270 (15.10%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.19%) Google
3 57 (3.19%) Oracle
4 45 (2.52%) Typelevel
5 34 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 25 (1.40%) Dynatrace
6 25 (1.40%) Splunk
7 18 (1.01%) IBM
8 17 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 15 (0.84%) Databricks
10 14 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.73%) Adobe
11 13 (0.73%) SendGrid
12 10 (0.56%) OneLogin
12 10 (0.56%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.56%) SAP
12 10 (0.56%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.45%) Cisco
13 8 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.39%) HubSpot